Shoe-display device



w. W-EYENB-ERG SHOE DISPLAY DEVICE Filed May 6; 1926 Jan. 15, 1929.

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Patented Jan. 15, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SHOE-DISPLAY DEVICE.

Application filed May 6,

This invention aims to provide a simple but efiective means for displaying shoes, on a shelf or otherwise.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the invention appertains.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a front elevation;

Figure 2 is a cross section on the line 22 of Figure 1.

The device forming the subject matter of this application comprises a frame which may be made of any desired material. The frame includes parallel vertical standards 1, in the form of blocks, the upper surfaces 2 of the standards slanting downwardly and forwardly, and the standards being supplied in their upper rear corners with recesses 3. In the recesses 3 is located a rail 4, the upper surface of which is flush with the upper surfaces 2 of the standards 1. Shoe supports 5, in the form of downwardly and forwardly inclined plates, are connected by securing elements 6 to the rail 4, the rail being located intermediate the upper and lower ends of the shoe supports. Other shoe supports 7, likewise in the form of plates, are provided, and are connected by securing elements 8 to the rail 4. The securing elements 8 do not enter the standards 1, although the shoe supports 7 rest immediately upon the inclined surfaces 2 of the standards 1. Securing devices 9 1926. Serial No. 107,167.

pass through the lower portions of the shoe supports 7 and enter the standards 1 and, thus, the rail 4 with the shoe supports 5, are held on the standards 1. Because the rail 4 is received in the recesses 3, the attachment afiorded by the securing devices 9 is ample, much of the strain being taken off the securing devices 9. The result is that the device may be assembled with a minimum amount of work, so far as driving nails is concerned, there being no occasion for driving nails through the rail 4 and perhaps splitting the standards 1 at their upper rear corners, an observation which will be understood readily when Figure 2 is noted. Each of the shoe supports 5 and 7 is supplied with a transverse eleat 10, the heel of the shoe being placed behind the cleat 10, and the shoe resting on the shoe support, in an inclined and attractive position, as will be understood readily, when Figure 2 of the drawings is noted.

What is claimed is In a device of the class described, spaced standards having downwardly and forwardly inclined upper edges, the standards being provided with recesses located at the upper rear ends of said edges, a rail received in the recesses, downwardly inclined transverse shoe supports secured to the rail, certain of the shoe supports resting on the inclined edges of the standards, and securing elements connecting the last-specified shoe sup- 75 ports with the standards, and constituting means whereby the rail and all of the supports are held assembled with the standards, the rail and the recess cooperating to take off the securing elements the thrust 0 resulting from the tendency of the shoes to slide downwardly along the shoe supports.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature.

WILLIAM WEYENBERG. 

